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Learning ArcGIS Pro 2

You're reading from   Learning ArcGIS Pro 2 A beginner's guide to creating 2D and 3D maps and editing geospatial data with ArcGIS Pro

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210228
Length 542 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tripp Corbin, GISP Tripp Corbin, GISP
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing and Navigating ArcGIS Pro
2. Introducing ArcGIS Pro FREE CHAPTER 3. Navigating the Ribbon Interface 4. Section 2: Visualizing, Maintaining, and Analyzing Data
5. Creating 2D Maps 6. Creating 3D Scenes 7. Creating and Working with Projects 8. Creating a Layout 9. Creating Map Books Using Map Series 10. Learning to Edit Spatial Data 11. Learning about Editing Tabular Data 12. Performing Analysis with Geoprocessing Tools 13. Section 3: Sharing Data and Automating processes
14. Creating and Using Tasks 15. Automating Processes with ModelBuilder and Python 16. Sharing Your Work with Others 17. Using Arcade Expressions for Labeling and Symbology 18. GIS glossary
19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the editable data formats

ArcGIS Pro allows users to access and use a lot of data formats to make maps, perform queries, and more. However, using and accessing is very different from being able to edit. It is important to know the limits of ArcGIS Pro with certain common data formats.

In this section, you will learn what data storage formats you can edit in ArcGIS Pro and how you can tell what format your data is stored in while working in ArcGIS Pro. This section will also provide you with a short introduction to the Esri geodatabase storage format, which is the preferred format for ArcGIS Pro.

Data formats – editable or not

The more you work in GIS, the greater the number of different data formats you will encounter. Esri's ArcGIS platform supports many of the most frequently used formats. However, as we said earlier, there is a big difference between being able to view and query data, and being able to edit it.

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